Associate Director, Interaction Design

Method is an international design firm specialized in creating brand, product and service design experiences. From our offices in New York and London, we serve clients – ranging from start-ups to household brand names – that expect a collaborative, engaging process and end-to-end solutions that are equally smart and beautiful.

Our design team is made up of a diverse set of professionals with backgrounds such as research, strategy, graphic design, industrial design, product development, marketing and technical development. You’ll play a contribute to and inspire these teams, as they tackle complex problems as they invent products and services that change our client’s organizations. What these professionals have in common is empathy for the human condition, love for experimenting with technology, an intense curiosity, a strong aesthetic viewpoint, and a mind for the realities of business.

As an Associate Director, you are responsible for the successful execution of strategic design projects, from framing opportunities with clients, designing and running research, through to workshops, concept development, and prototyping the future of our client’s products and services. Your design background gives you a unique lens to use as we investigate our client’s challenges and opportunities, and move into a conceptual space. You’ll help your team and others turn concepts to reality with high-fidelity aesthetics, and lead designers through the craft of design communication.

Core Skills

An understanding of Brand, Product and Service development process and ability to transform strategic direction into high quality design artifacts from total systems to individual elements.

An understanding of lean design processes.

An understanding of iterative prototyping as an essential part of the design process.

Formal design knowledge and high quality craft skills with attention to detail and ability to deliver effective and functional design artifacts as they pertain to project requirements.

Ability to think strategically and translate brand, service and product requirements into holistic systems that effectively communicate.

Strong ability to think visually and collaborate seamlessly with Visual Designers as it pertains to interaction, behavior, & style discussions.

Strong ability to think technically and collaborate seamlessly with Design Technologists as it pertains to understanding the benefits, possibilities and constraints of common coding languages and platforms.

An ability to lead small (2-4 designer) teams through big problems.

Experience in mentoring and managing the careers of other designers.

Knowledge of prototyping methods and the ability to create new methods.

Fluency with common design software (Sketch, Invision, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Keynote) for the creation of UX and interaction design artifacts and presentations.

The people that thrive at Method are curious, empathetic, rigorous, experimental and appreciate a holistic way of solving design problems in collaborative teams through rapid prototyping. Method’s culture is a meritocracy in which small project teams collaborate across multiple departments and, in many cases, across offices and time zones. We seek patient and friendly individuals who are smart, curious and opinionated; individuals who have the ability to proactively develop points of view across categories for an ever-changing product and service development environment. But we also seek those that have the ability to listen, to consider other opinions, and who are able to work well with others.

If you are a curious individual that believes better experiences shape a better world, we’d like to hear from you.

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